Second time I'm hearing (what's for me) a mile-high comp number for kube jobs and I'm now really tempted.

Working as a data scientist - software engineer in a midsize company, I constantly battle amateur ops folk and "backend" fullstack jockeys from introducing kubernetes into a saas product I mostly created by myself (makes money but there are maybe ten users per hour tops, why would I need kubernetes for that?).

My org has seen multi-day downtimes for the entire eng team workflow because the eks cluster went down and they couldn't figure out how. We have four people dedicated in the infra team for this! I'm not really an ops person but I see where the failings of these folks and stacks are, and feel like I might be able to learn to be half-decent if I put the time. What advice would you give ?